[post_page_title]The Queen Mother grumbled about ‘keeping those foolish people waiting'[/post_page_title]
In fact, the future Queen Mother’s experience during her second birth merits special attention, mostly because the royal herself seemed to detest the officials’ presence. Home Secretary John Clynes and his aide arrived at Scotland’s Glamis Castle, the Queen Mother’s childhood home, in anticipation of the delivery of the first royal to be born in Scotland in 330 years.
More than two weeks later, the event still hadn’t happened. With the surrounding village overflowing with journalists, which she dubbed “vultures,” the Duchess told her mother-in-law she supposed she’d soon be given “all sorts of horrid drinks, so as not to keep these foolish people waiting.”
